Bike advocate extraordinaire Paul Steely White, head of Transportation Alternatives, saw the senator coming at him on the bike lane this weekend and knew there was but one thing to do—take a picture and post it online. Mr. White told us that he never intended this to be a sensational moment, though.

“To me it wasn’t a ‘gotcha’ moment at all,” he wrote in an email. “It was more a validation of my ideal Chuck Schumer, the one who supports biking and transit.”

It’s true, Mr. Schumer has been a fierce advocate of projects ranging from Moynihan Station to the recent reinstatement of the commute tax credit, and he has opposed the crummy transportation bills to come out of both houses of Congress this year.

That said, on this one tiny nine-tenths-of-a-mile bike path, he remains mum. A spokesman for Senator Schumer declined to comment on the sighting.